I think education is our only wepon here. I post nutral mac related stuff on the lists and have been doing so since the advent of tiger. At first, I was told that they were windows lists but I pointed out that the lists I was posting on did not say anything about windows in their descriptions but it was assumed that they were windows lists because till Tiger and perhaps some lynux, windows was the only (lame) game in town.
Unfortunately, the guy has a huge following so we can't just brush him off, we can only provide facts to combat the ignorance. The good thing is that there are some good folk writing on the lists pointing out the failings in his statements and providing links to good information The bottom line though is that people who "know" they are right will not change. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krister Ekstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:10 AM Subject: Re: what we have to contend with:Fw: From today's Tech Update The problem is that the fools often are in a majority and thus can spread their stupidity around. I agree with you that this guys opinions probably are written in stone, and i don't know what we should do or say in order for the Mac to get the credit it very well deserves other than speak as subjectively as we can, admitting the various bugs that are present and also present the workarounds to those who are curious and willing to change systems. I for one am glad i switched. /Krister 3 nov 2008 kl. 04.35 skrev Jacob Schmude: > As soon as I read that he never even tried that which he is slamming > he lost *all* credibility. Sometimes I just don't think we should > protect the fools from themselves. If someone is that much of an > idiot, to self-admittedly bash a product he has never tried, no > amount of talking is going to convince him he was wrong to post such > things. Personally, I'm sick of this. Most blind people want to be > idiots? I say let them! The intelligent people will evaluate > products fairly, the fools will just spread FUD and other fools will > believe them. It's too bad stupidity is such a common element that > makes up our universe. > > > > > >
